Tag: public housing
Is Venezuela ‘Fixed’? – The Atlantic
“Venezuela is fixed.” Pundits began saying this on Venezuelan state media a couple of years ago, and it became a mantra for a numbed nation. But even Nicolás Maduro, the president, concedes that the phrase is not quite right. The country is not yet fixed, he said in a press conference in 2022, but it’s very much improving.
“Venezuela is fixed.” Perhaps to Maduro’s annoyance, the mantra has become a sarcastic quip, invoked when the Caracas airport goes dark during
False Choices and Familiar Stories in a California Homeless Encampment
To the untrained, or perhaps even weary, eye, every homeless encampment in California looks the same. The colors of the tents, which range from safety oranges to forest greens and the royal blues of the tarps that keep out the rain, all seem to fade together into an even mix of browns and grays. The effect is almost entirely psychological—if you took the same tent and put it in a campground, its colors would present themselves again. I suppose this